Welcome Savings Bank, PFCT, and Mouda suffer information leaks due to successive hacking

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Bae Young-kyung and Kang Ryu-na = While damage to information leaks in the financial sector due to hacking attacks has been confirmed one after another, it was discovered on the 4th that Welcome Savings Bank also had corporate customer information leaked.

According to the financial industry, Welcome Savings Bank confirmed that it had suffered a hacking attack related to corporate customers during its self-inspection the previous day and reported it to the authorities.

It is estimated that up to 2,200 pieces of corporate customer-related information, including corporate name, corporate representative name, email, and phone number, were leaked.

Welcome Savings Bank is currently determining the exact circumstances of the leak and the extent of the damage.

It was belatedly confirmed that an information leak had recently occurred in the online investment-linked financial business (On2Up).

PFCT Technologies (PFCT) announced on its website on the 29th of the same month that the personal information of some users was leaked due to an external electronic infringement on the 27th of last month. It was reported that personal information of about 300 customers was stolen.

Mouda also announced the possibility that some personal information and personal credit information may have been leaked to the outside world through a notice on the 29th of last month. On the 27th of the same month, it was revealed that an external third party appears to have accessed the website illegally, and that the Internet address (IP) and bypass were blocked after discovering abnormalities.

However, it has not yet been confirmed whether the information leak from these On2 businesses is part of this omni-directional hacking incident in the financial sector using artificial intelligence (AI) technology.

In fact, On2Up was excluded from attending the 'Emergency Inspection Meeting for All Financial Sectors in Response to Infringement Threats' hosted by the financial authorities this afternoon.